this is new to me: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(god)#%22The_great_god_Pan_is_dead%22
Christian apologists, including Eusebius of Caesarea, have long made much of Plutarch's story of the death of Pan. Due to the word "all" in Greek also being "pan", a pun was made that "all demons" had perished....In modern times, G. K. Chesterton has repeated and amplified the significance of the "death" of Pan, suggesting that with the "death" of Pan came the advent of theology. To this effect, Chesterton claimed, "It is said truly in a sense that Pan died because Christ was born. It is almost as true in another sense that men knew that Christ was born because Pan was already dead...." ...The cry "The Great Pan is dead" has appealed to poets, such as John Milton, in his ecstatic celebration of Christian peace, 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' ....
Hm. If Christians were heartened by the purported death of the great god Pan, that seems like a good reason to bring him back. Jack Parsons would be pleased. ~Χαρά